The wide-ranging influence of the Bohr effect
By 
Philip Ball2025-11-28T09:31:00
While not a Nobel prize-winning discovery in itself, this challenge to the reductionist view of physiology has links to several other winners
Anyone encountering the Bohr effect for the first time could be forgiven for thinking that it was discovered by Niels Bohr, 1922 physics Nobel laureate for his work on the quantum atom. Given that the Bohr effect concerns the physiology of oxygen uptake in the blood, that would suggest a remarkable breadth of interest.